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Overview:

Conservation Status

Population Trend:

Growing

Taxonomy

Notes:

Name Status: Provisionally Accepted Name. Latest taxonomic scrutiny: –

Name verified on

Place of publication: Flora of New Zealand 1:360. 1961

Name verified on 27-Apr-1992 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 23-Aug-1994

Physical Description

Family Rosaceae:

Trees, shrubs, or herbs, deciduous or evergreen. Stems erect, scandent, arching, prostrate, or creeping, armed or unarmed. Buds usually with several exposed scales, sometimes with only 2. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, simple or compound; stipules paired, free or adnate to petiole, rarely absent, persistent or deciduous; petiole usually 2-glandular apically; leaf blade often serrate at margin, rarely entire. Inflorescences various, from single flowers to umbellate, corymbose, racemose or cymose-paniculate. Flowers usually actinomorphic, bisexual, rarely unisexual and then plants dioecious. Hypanthium (formed from basal parts of sepals, petals, and stamens) free from or adnate to ovary, short or elongate. Sepals usually 5, rarely fewer or more, imbricate; epicalyx segments sometimes also present. Petals as many as sepals, inserted below margin of disk, free, imbricate, sometimes absent. Disk lining hypanthium, usually entire, rarely lobed. Stamens usually numerous, rarely few, always in a complete ring at margin of or above disk; filaments usually free, very rarely connate; anthers small, didymous, rarely elongate, 2-locular. Carpels 1 to many, free, or ± connate and then adnate to inner surface of cupular receptacle; ovary inferior, semi-inferior, or superior; ovules usually 2 in each carpel, rarely 1 or several, anatropous, superposed. Styles as many as carpels, terminal, lateral, or basal, free or sometimes connate. Fruit a follicle, pome, achene, or drupe, rarely a capsule, naked or enclosed in persistent hypanthium and sometimes also by sepals. Seeds erect or pendulous, sometimes winged, usually exalbuminous, very rarely with thin endosperm; cotyledons mostly fleshy and convex abaxially, rarely folded or convolute.

Between 95 and 125 genera and 2825-3500 species: cosmopolitan, mostly in N temperate zone; 55 genera (two endemic) and 950 species (546 endemic) in China.

Many plants of this family are of economic importance and contribute to people s livelihoods. The Rosaceae contain a great number of fruit trees of temperate regions. The fruits contain vitamins, acids, and sugars and can be used both raw and for making preserves, jam, jelly, candy, various drinks, wine, vinegar, etc. The dried fruits of the genera

Amygdalus and Armeniaca are of high commercial value. Some plants in the genus Rosa containing essential oils or with a high vitamin content are used in industry. Rosaceae wood is used for making various articles, stems and roots are used for making tannin extract, and young leaves are used as a substitute for tea. Numerous species are used for medical purposes or are cultivated as ornamentals.

The Rosaceae are very well represented in China, with great economic and scientific importance. The Co-chairs of the Editorial Committee (Wu and Raven) here note that the patterns of relationship are complex and the group is taxonomically difficult. ^[1]

Habit: Forb/herb

Flowers: Bloom Period: July, August. • Flower Color: inconspicuous, none

Distribution

Range and Population

Native: .

Native: South Island, Stewart Island.

Reproduction

Duration: Perennial

Growth

Culture: Space 6-9" apart.

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun.

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b. (map)

Similar Species

Members of the genus Acaena:

There are approximately 573 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them: A. adscendens cardiostemon · A. anserinifolia anserinifolia · A. anserinifolia elata · A. anserinifolia epoligotricha · A. anserinifolia interruptepinnata · A. anserinifolia oleosenitens · A. anserinifolia utrinquestrigulosa · A. glandulifera nordenskjoeldii · A. krausei pilosior · A. multifida abavia · A. multifida alaticonnata · A. multifida canella · A. multifida intercedens · A. multifida quinquefida · A. ovina ovina · A. sanguisorbae elata · A. sanguisorbae epoligotricha · A. sanguisorbae interruptepinnata · A. sanguisorbae oleosenitens · A. sanguisorbae sanguisorbae · A. sanguisorbae utrinquestrigulosa · A. anserovina · A. 'Breisgau' · A. 'Greencourt Hybrid' · A. 'Pewter' · A. 'Purple Carpet' · A. 'Purple Haze' · A. acris · A. acrobyssina · A. aculeata · A. adenocarpa var. pedicellata · A. adenocarpa var. tridentata · A. adscendens 'Glauca' · A. adscendens subsp. cardiostemon · A. adscendens var. incisa · A. adscendens var. majuscula · A. adscendens var. minuscula · A. agnipila · A. agnipila var. aequispina · A. agnipila var. agnipila · A. agnipila var. protenta · A. agnipila var. tenuispica · A. alpina · A. alpine · A. andicola · A. andina · A. anserinacea · A. anserinifolia · A. anserinifolia subsp. anserinifolia · A. anserinifolia subsp. elata · A. anserinifolia subsp. epoligotricha · A. anserinifolia subsp. interruptepinnata · A. anserinifolia subsp. oleosenitens · A. anserinifolia subsp. utrinquestrigulosa · A. anserinifolia var. angustifoliolata · A. anserinifolia var. anserinifolia · A. anserinifolia var. antarctica · A. anserinifolia var. brevifoliolata · A. anserinifolia var. gracilis · A. anserinifolia var. microphylla · A. anserinifolia var. paucidens · A. anserinifolia var. robusta · A. anserinifolia var. sericeinitens · A. anserinifolia var. subincisa · A. anserovina · A. antarctica · A. aquatica · A. argentea · A. argentea f. epargyrea · A. argentea f. nigricans · A. argentea f. viridis · A. argentea forma epargyrea · A. argentea forma nigricans · A. argentea forma viridis · A. argentea var. brevifoliolata · A. argentea var. breviscapa · A. argentea var. contracta · A. argentea var. coriacea · A. argentea var. gracilis · A. argentea var. gracillima · A. argentea var. grandiceps · A. argentea var. humilis · A. argentea var. interrupte-pinnata · A. argentea var. interruptepinnata · A. argentea var. lanigera · A. argentea var. pluribracteata · A. argentea var. subcalvescens · A. ascendens · A. ascendens var. macrochaeta · A. asthenoglochin · A. australis · A. basibullata · A. behriana · A. berteriana · A. berteroana · A. boliviana · A. brunnescens · A. buchanani · A. buchananii (New Zealand Burr) · A. buchananii f. erubescens

Bibliography

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Notes

Contributors:

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Data Sources:

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal January 29, 2008:

• Australian National Herbarium
• , Australian National Herbarium
• National Herbarium of New South Wales, NSW herbarium collection

Identifiers:

• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 565976
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 1156699
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:169930-3
• U.S.D.A. Plant Symbol: ACPA14
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 12992

Footnotes:

1. Cuizhi Gu, Chaoluan Li, Lingdi Lu, Shunyuan Jiang, Crinan Alexander, Bruce Bartholomew, Anthony R. Brach, David E. Boufford, Hiroshi Ikeda, Hideaki Ohba, Kenneth R. Robertson & Steven A. Spongberg "Rosaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 9 Page 46. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.